I have had problems in the past with ExtUtils::MakeMaker (which runs when you perl Makefile.PL) and Norton Antivirus 2000 in particular. With NAV running on some machines (not all) you get a BSOD when you perl Makefile.PL. Your problem will likely relate to some other software you are running in the background when you try the install. Give the system a three finger salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and shut down extraneous daemons one (or several) at a time to find the culprit. Antivirus software is the most system invasive so start there.

BTW ME is much less stable than 98SE so if you come from a *nix background you might do well to get either 98SE or one of NT/XP/2000 which all run the NT kernel which is pretty stable.

cheers

tachyon

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